IGA Reading Room, 360 Shields Library

Wednesday, May 18

12:10 - 2 pm, Wellman 25

PAUL MCKEGNEY

"To Get What is Under His Feet": Inuvialuit Prison Writing and Environmental Kinship

Dr. McKegney will address the ethical complexities of working as a settler scholar on the collaborative editing of prison writings by a deceased Inuvialuit author, while considering the environmental imperatives embedded in his critical autobiography. McKegney is a professor at Queen's University in Canada. His research interests include: Indigenous literature's, Canadian literature, masculinity theory, and literary activism. McKegney's Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School

This presentation for NAS: Introduction to Native American Literatures is also open to the public. This guest lecture is co-hosted by the Department of Native American Studies, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the Davis Humanities Institute.

Tuesday, May 17Andrews Conference Room, SSH 2203 (History Dept.)

Lost Children: The Transfer, Kidnapping, and Trafficking of Children during, War,

Colonialism, Genocide and Civil Conflict The symposium is part of the larger effort

to introduce the interdisciplinary study of Human Rights to our campus. It will bring

together a very interesting group of scholars working on the Holocaust, the Armenian

Genocide, the Dirty Wars in Latin America and colonialism, to examine a particularly

vexing and all to common set of problems.

Schedule:

Session One (3:15 - 4:30pm)
Diane Wolf, UC Davis
"'My War Began After the War:' Hidden Jewish Children and Family Reunification in the Netherlands"
Melanie Tanielian, UC Berkeley
"'Protecting the Innocent:' Humanitarian Child Transfer after the Adana Massacre, 1909"
Discussant: Andrea Dooley, UC Davis
Session Two (4:45 - 6:00pm)
Keith David Watenpaugh, UC Davis
"The Social Death of Children in the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1922"
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
"Saving the Children? Ehtnic Cleansing, Children, and Humanitarianism in Twentieth Century Europe"
Discussant: Michael Lazzara, UC Davis
Co-Sponsors: Religious Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Davis Humanities Institute, Consortium for Women in Research, Cultural Studies,
Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, and Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
For questions: Contact Prof. Keith Watenpaugh at
kwatenpaugh@ucdavis.edu, or the Religious Studies Main Office at (530)
752-1219.

Noon, Institute of Governmental Affairs, Shields Library

JOSE ANTONIO CHEIBUB (Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective"

Prof. Cheibub is the author of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000. With Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, and Michael Alvarez. Winner of the 2001 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award given by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the United Stated on government, politics or international affairs. In 2007 he published Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Democracy. Cambridge University Press.

For the second time in history, Mexican residents around the world will be able to vote for the next Presi-dent of Mexico. Who can vote? All Mexican citizens 18 and older who reside abroad and have a voting credential, and whose voter application from abroad has been sent and accepted before January 15, 2012. For more information on the voting process, please visit the internet portal: www.votoextranjero.mx.

- Angel Díaz, Electoral Counsel of the Electoral Institute of the Federal District (IEDF)

- Guadalupe López de Llergo, Director of External Outreach of the COVE

Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento and the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. For more information contact Alejandro Celorio, acelorio@sre.gob.mx.

Monday, May 9th 3:30pm to 5:00pm, Olson 53A

MANLIO ARGUETA, escritor comprometido

Manlio Argueta is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel Un día en la vida (One Day of Life), which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Argueta’s talk will focus on Un día en la vida, as well as his most recent novel, Siglo del o(g)ro, in relation to his development as a politically conscious writer and critic.

Manlio Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador in 1935. Though he began writing poetry at the age of 13, he is best known as a writer of prose fiction, in particular for novels such as Un día en la vida (One Day of Life), Caperucita en la zona roja (Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District) and Cuzcatlán, donde bate la mar del sur (Cuzcatlán, Where the Southern Sea Beats). In the 1950s, Argueta became associated with the "Committed Generation" (la generación comprometida). Due to his critical stance toward the Salvadoran government, he was exiled to Costa Rica in 1972 and was unable to return to El Salvador until the 1990s. Today he is the director of the National Library in San Salvador, and continues to publish works of fiction.

This event is hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and co-sponsored by the Estudios Culturales en las Américas Research Super Cluster, the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, the Department of Comparative Literature, and U.S.E.U.

The 2011 Gender Matters Symposium speaks to the urgency of increasing the representation of Latin@s – especially Chicanas/Latinas -- in higher education. It explores longstanding problems of exclusion and ways of making the university more responsive to, and reflective of, the communities it serves. Given the current economic crisis, general disinvestment in public higher education, and renewed anti-immigration sentiment, it is exactly the right time to keep such matters at the front and center of debate.

Gerardo Torres is on a two week speaking tour of the US informing people about the current situation in Honduras and the effort of the non-violent popular resistance to "refound" the State following the June 28, 2010 military coup.

Villanueva Chang is the founding editor of Etiqueta Negra and winner of the Interamerican Press Association Award in feature writing.

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Spring Quarter 2011 Film Archive

May 27

El traspatio/ Backyard

(Mexico 2009)

The film's narrative is based on actual events that
took place in 1996 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where since the mid-90's
thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses
in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?

In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini a goalkeeper for a minor league soccer team is kidnapped by the Argentinean secret military police during the Dirty War. Falsely accused of being an anti-government terrorist, he is brutally tortured at a clandestine detention center known as Sere Mansion. As Tamburrini and his fellow inmates plot their escape, we are witness to their powerful struggle for survival.

Madame Satã illustrates the life of one of the most infamous figures in Brazilian popular culture João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). Titled after Santos' legendary stage name "Madame Satã" (Madam Satan), the film is inspired by the life of a man who pushed social boundaries amidst a post abolitionist era Brazil as a drag performer, convict, father, and brothel cook.

The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas is an interdisciplinary group bringing together faculty and graduate students that focus on the study of transnational processes in the American Hemisphere.

Our Goal includes promoting research to challenge the boundaries of disciplinary specialization and culture area studies, exploring the connections throughout the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the Western Hemisphere from an array of perspective and redirecting and redefining the study of Latin America from a broadly hemispheric viewpoint.